San Truong (aka Huy Duc)
is a freelance journalist based in Ho Chi Minh City who covers Vietnamese
politics. After serving eight years in the Vietnamese army as a senior
lieutenant, fighting against the Chinese in 1979 and against the Khmer
Rouge in the 1980s, he wrote for leading newspapers in Vietnam including
Tuoi Tre and the Saigon Economic Times. As a journalist working in a state-controlled
media system, his guiding principle has been to "push the line, but
not cross the line," attacking corruption and promoting political
reform in his homeland. Until 2010, he published blogosin.org, which was
ranked as the most popular blog in Vietnam. He is the 2013 Atsuko Chiba
Nieman Fellow. The Chiba fellowship honors the memory of Atsuko Chiba,
a 1968 Nieman Fellow.

You should read: the Committee to Protect
Journalists' appeal for press freedoms, referencing crackdowns on Huy
Duc and other online journalists and bloggers. The committee wrote: Truong
Huy San, a newspaper reporter who under the pen name Huy Duc maintained
a popular blog known as Osin, was dismissed on August 24 from the government-run
Saigon Tiep Thi (Saigon Marketing) soon after he had published criticism
of the former Soviet Union's crimes against humanity. It was lost on few
observers that the Soviet Union was a key ally to your Communist Party-run
government during the Cold War.